Brown, G. Z.
Novitski, B. J.
2011-09-29T14:19:28Z
2011-09-29T14:19:28Z
2011
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11594
6 pages
This paper describes the methodology and
results of a project to study the behavior of
the sun and wind in creating more or less
favorable microclimates around two suburban
building types in two U.S. locations.
This project was supported by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts in
Washington, D.C., a federal Agency, and by
the Department of Architecture, J. Finrow,
Head, at the University of Oregon.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Architecture and climate
Microclimatology
THE HICROCLIMATES AROUND FREE-STANDING BUILDINGS
Article

Loveland, J. E.
Brown, G. Z.
2010-06-16T22:22:08Z
2010-06-16T22:22:08Z
1989
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10462
15 p.
This study uses computer simulation techniques to assess
the impacts of climate change on building energy demand.
This analysis allows for the characterization of the
potential for reducing the energy use of buildings in a
quantitative manner and therefore improving building
design. Six cities and five building types representing a
range of climates and building occupancies were modeled.
Three design strategies for improving energy performance
under warmed conditions are compared to a basecase.
The study concludes that annual cooling loads will increase
at a much greater rate than heating loads will decrease;
The timing, magnitude and duration of short term changes,
peaks, is as large a concern as the sheer magnitude of the
large annual changes in demand due to Global Warming; .
new methods of resource acquisition will have to be
implemented to respond to the new energy resource
demands; and a new set of incremental measures,
conservation targets, will have to be developed to support
new resources.
The results of the study indicate that research and
demonstration regional, building unit area weighted,
zero energy growth, energy demand targets should be
developed. These regional energy conservation targets
should emphasize the saving of lost opportunity resources
in the design of the most permanent of the building
systems, the building's exterior skin geometry. assembly
and interiors. The study indicates that the clearest specific
target for reducing energy use under Global Warming is
the design of windows. The research, design. and
demonstration of windows that act as an integrated lighting
system with the electric lighting; admitting daylight. view.
and cooling ventilation without admitting sunlight; should
be a major thrust for research and development of the
1990's.
This research was accomplished under contract to the
Office of Technology Assessment of the United States
Congress. For a complete copy of this report to Office of
Technology Assessment, contact the College of Architecture
& Urban Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Buildings -- Performance -- United States
Climatic changes -- United States
Climate change
Impacts of Climate Change on the Energy Performance of Buildings in the United States
Technical Report

Loveland, Joel
Brown, G. Z.
2010-09-25T01:22:30Z
2010-09-25T01:22:30Z
1996
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10747
58 p. Publishing date unknown, but no later than 1996. Revised ed. of Impacts of Climate Change on the Energy Performance of Buildings in the United States, 1989.
This study uses computer simulation techniques to assess the impacts of climate change
on building energy demand. This analysis allows for the characterization of the potential
for reducing the energy use of buildings in a quantitative manner and therefore
improving building design. Six cities and five building types representing a range of
climates and building occupancies were modeled. Three design strategies for improving
energy performance under warmed conditions are compared to a basecase.
The study concludes that annual cooling loads will increase at a much greater rate than
heating loads will decrease; The timing, magnitude and duration of short term changes,
peaks, is as large a concern as the sheer magnitude of the large annual changes in demand
due to Global Warming; new methods of resource acquisition will have to be
implemented to respond to the new energy resource demands; and a new set of
incremental measures, conservation targets, will have to be developed to support new
resources.
The results of the study indicate that research and demonstration of regional, building
unit area weighted, zero energy growth, energy demand targets should be developed.
These regional energy conservation targets should emphasize the saving of lost
opportunity resources in the design of the most permanent of the building systems, the
building's exterior skin geometry, assembly and interiors. The study indicates that the
clearest specific target for reducing energy use under Global Warming is the design of
windows. The research, design, and demonstration of windows that act as an integrated
lighting system with the electric lighting; admitting daylight, view, and cooling
ventilation without admitting sunlight; should be a major thrust for research and
development of the 1990's.
Contract Number J3-4825.0, Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Buildings -- Energy conservation
Climatic changes
Climate change
Impacts of climate change on the energy performance of buildings in the United States
Article

Brown, G. Z.(Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1980)

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Brown, G. Z.
2011-09-28T22:36:53Z
2011-09-28T22:36:53Z
1980
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11589
4 pages
The teaching of mechanical and electrical
systems in isolation (i e, distinct from
design studios), reinforces the notion that
technical concerns are narrow, equipment
oriented and independent. Broader environmental
questions should be addressed,
relating to social and political
issues. To accomplish this, mechanical/electrical system design must be integrated
with a synthetic building design
process so as to combine diverse programmatic
elements in a way that is responsive
to physical, social and political context.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Architectural design
Insideout: Making Environmental Control Systems a Part of Design
Article

Brambley, Michael R.
Quadrel, Richard W.
Stratton, Rex C.
Brown, G. Z.
Meacham, Matt
Miller, Peter
Pohl, Jens G.
La Porta, John
Snyder, James
Selkowitz, Steven E.
Papamichael, Konstantinos
Bailey, Mark L.
2011-05-11T14:36:27Z
2011-05-11T14:36:27Z
1992
Building Systems Automation-Integration '92, Dallas, Texas, June, 1992
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11163
8 p.
The design of energy-efficient buildings can be aided by intelligent computer tools that can evaluate design solutions and make recommendations for improving the buildings' energy performance. Such tools can be very productive when they are integrated with existing computer-aided design technology. Pacific Northwest Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Oregon, the California Polytechnic State University, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, is developing such tools and integrating them into a computational environment that can be easily used by architects, engineers, and designers. This project, called the Advanced Energy Design and Operations Technologies (ABDOT) project, intends to demonstrate how building energy performance can be improved by combining expertise from a variety of domain perspectives during the design process.
This paper describes the first prototype to emerge from the AEDOT work. AEDOT Prototype 1 consists of several design and energy tools that have been integrated using the lCADS framework developed at California Polytechnic State University. The prototype demonstrates how an integrated system responds to a building design as it is being developed on a CAD system. While the designer draws a building floor plan, a number of intelligent design tools (IDTs) examine the drawing and evaluate the design's acoustics, thermal profile, daylighting use, cost, and compliance with energy standards, to name a few. These IDTs also make design-specific recommendations intended to improve the cost, energy performance, and overall quality of the design.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Energy efficient buildings
Advanced Energy Design and Operations Technology
Design tools
AEDOT
Architecture and energy conservation -- Computer-aided design
An Integrated Environment for Intelligent Energy Design
Article

Meacham, Matthew A. (Matthew Andy), 1959-
Brown, G. Z.
2010-09-24T00:39:34Z
2010-09-24T00:39:34Z
1991-12
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10743
99 p.
The U.S. housing industry appears to be on the brink of extensive computerization
as a result of competitive pressures within the U.S.A., and from Europe and
Japan. The Japanese lead the U.S. in computerizing the sales through design
processes and the Swedes and Norwegians lead in the design through production
processes. Computer-based tools for evaluating the energy performance of buildings
have low levels of use throughout the industrialized housing field. If a computer-
based energy evaluation tool is to be used, it must fit with the computers and
software already used to produce and market industrialized housing. Therefore
an energy tool which works with CAD systems, the most common non MIS computer
use in industrialized housing, is more likely to be useful and actually utilized
than one which does not.
U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-FC03-89SF17960
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Buildings -- Energy conservation
Buildings -- Energy consumption
Energy consumption
Integrating an energy evaluation module with a CAD program : a feasibility study
Article

Brown, G. Z.
Novitski, B. J.
2010-06-16T20:43:17Z
2010-06-16T20:43:17Z
1988
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10460
12 p.
During the past year at the University of Oregon, we have conducted an experimental design
studio in which each student had an Apple Macintosh SE microcomputer on his or her studio
desk. Each term we experimented with a variety of software, furniture arrangements, and
pedagogical approaches to integrating computers in design teaching. Like most others who have
conducted such experiments, we encountered problems in trying to use hardware and software
which is fundamentally inappropriate for the intuitive, graphic, and creative processes
characteristic of preliminary design. However, we solved many of these problems and have
produced useful techniques that may form the beginnings of a new approach to the use of
computers in architecture schools.
Our results fall in three major categories: 1) pedagogical discoveries about learning to design
with a computer, which is greater than the sum of learning to design and learning about
computers; 2) design exercises based on the Macintosh environment, exploiting the unique
graphic qualities of the machine while simultaneously developing the ideas and drawing skills
needed in the preliminary stages of design; 3) descriptions of the studio environment, including
hardware, software, workstation layouts, security solutions, and other practical information that
might be useful to others who are contemplating a similar project.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
A Macintosh Design Studio
Article

Brown, G. Z.
Novitski, B. J.
2011-01-21T14:32:12Z
2011-01-21T14:32:12Z
2011-01-21T14:32:12Z
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10942
4 p.
We have developed computer-aided techniques for analysing
climates in terms of the combined effects of insulation, air
temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity and have
linked these to specific architectural responses in order to
establish some passive building design techniques that can
be used to achieve thermal comfort in various climatic
regions, taking maximum advantage· of available natural
energies.
This analysis allows the designer to organize and prioritize
the vast array of architectural responses in a way that is
appropriate for particular climates. Even without using
thermal lag techniques, the need for mechanical heating and
cooling can be reduced by 15-45%, depending on location,
solely by an architectural sensitivity to the immediate behavior
of the sun and wind.
Article
en_US
Architecture and climate
Climate
A METHOD FOR ANALYSING CLIMATE IN TERMS OF ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSES
Article

Donaldson, S. A.
Brown, G. Z.
2010-09-24T23:50:10Z
2010-09-24T23:50:10Z
1991-12
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10744
32 p.
This report presents an analysis of the costs and benefits of two methods of
commercializing Energy Scheming 1.0:
• production and distribution by the University of Oregon, and
• production and distribution by an independent software publisher.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Power resources -- Costs
Energy scheming
United States. Bonneville Power Administration
BPA
Methods of commercializing energy scheming in the BPA region
Article

Brown, G. Z.
Berg, Rudy
Corner, Don
Finrow, Jerry
Kellett, Ron
Kirsch, Patti
McDonald, Margot
McGinn, Barry
Sekiguchi, Tomoko
Fairey, Philip
Chandra, Subrato
Swart, William
Roland, Jim
Maxwell, Larry
2011-10-27T11:37:52Z
2011-10-27T11:37:52Z
1989-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11719
57 pages
The research program, under the guidance of a steering committee composed of industry
and government representatives, focuses on three interdependent concerns -- energy
conservation, industrial process, and housing design. Building homes in a factory offers the
opportunity to increase energy efficiency through new materials and processes, and increase
the value of these homes by improving the quality of their construction. Housing design
strives to ensure that these technically advanced homes are marketable and will meet the needs
of the people who will live in them. Energy efficiency is the focus for the plan. Because
energy is viewed in the context of production and design, researchers will be able to solve
energy problems in a way that helps industry improve its product and compete with foreign
companies, alleviate the trade imbalance in construction products, increase the productivity of
the U.S. housing industry, and decrease both the cost of housing and the use of fossil fuels
that are expensive and damaging to the environment.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Housing -- Design and construction
MULTIYEAR RESEARCH PLAN ENERGY EFFICIENT INDUSTRIALIZED HOUSING
Plan or blueprint

Brown, G. Z.
Novitski, B. J.
2011-01-21T14:24:52Z
2011-01-21T14:24:52Z
1980-10
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10940
5 p.
In earlier work, we have developed methods
of describing climate in terms of the interactive
effects of insulation, air temperature,
wind speed, and relative humidity.
By characterizing their effects in terms of
the architectural responses required to produce
thermal comfort, we have been able to
describe a "Modified Comfort Zone," or MCZ,
which greatly exceeds, in frequency of occurrence,
the "Standard Comfort Zone," or SCZ,
as described by Olgyay. We have found that
thermal comfort, in the fourteen North
American climates analyzed, is achievable
without mechanical heating or cooling, from
20-50% of the year, depending on the location.
Further analysis of the way these
architectural responses form daily and seasonal
patterns has enables us to begin a
description of climates in a format directly
usable for architects in the design of buildings
which are dynamically responsive to
climate. This paper investigates ways of
simplifying a climate description, to improve
its direct usefulness, without dampering
the dynamic subtleties.
This paper describes three locations, representing
a variety of climate types, and
shows the usefulness of climate description
in several phases of the design process.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Thermal comfort
Architecture and climate
PASSIVE DESIGN IMPLICATIONS DERIVED FROM CLIMATE ANALYSIS FOR VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Technical Report

Brown, G. Z.
Kellett, Ronald
DeKay, Mark
Muller, Brook
Peting, Donald
2011-09-29T22:54:39Z
2011-09-29T22:54:39Z
1992
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11608
10 pages
This paper reports on work in progress in 'Design for Energy
Efficiency', one of fifteen task areas of the U.S. Department of Energy
sponsored Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing research program.
In this task, design studies establish performance goals for systems
and technologies leading to energy efficient housing in the year 2030.
Methods and results of work in progress are summarized,
emphasizing areas where principles of design, engineering and
manufacturing have converged to realize program goals of energy
performance, economy and design quality.
U.S. Department of Energy
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Architecture and energy conservation
Housing
Architectural design
Performance Specifications for the Design and Manufacture of Energy Efficient Housing in the 21st Century
Article

Hulse, David (David W.); Brown, G. Z.(Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, November , 1991)

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Hulse, David (David W.)
Brown, G. Z.
2010-09-23T23:40:53Z
2010-09-23T23:40:53Z
1991-11
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10742
31 p.
Since 1989 the U.S. Department of Energy has sponsored a research program
organized to improve energy efficiency in industrialized housing. Two research
centers share responsibility for the Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing
(EEIH) program: the Center for Housing Innovation at the University of Oregon
and the Florida Solar Energy Center, a research institute of the University of
Central Florida. Additional funding is provided by non-DOE participants from
private industry, state governments, and utilities. The program is guided by a
steering committee composed of industry and government representatives. Industrialization of U.S. housing production varies from mobile home builders
who ship furnished houses to a site, to production builders who assemble factory
produced house components on a site. Such housing can be divided into four
major categories: HUD code (mobile) homes, modular houses, panelized houses,
and production built houses. There are many hybrids of these categories. The U.S.
Housing industry is highly diverse and categorizations based on processes used
rather than on products produced are not common. This presents special
challenges to any attempt to create tools, computer-based or otherwise, which are
widely applicable within the industry.
We developed a characterization of sales processes used in the industry through a
combination of literature search, telephone interviews, site visits, and on-site
interviews. Based on this characterization, two panelized manufacturers were
chosen for additional site visitJinterviews focusing specifically on: 1) the role of
computerization in their current sales processes; and 2) the potential for
improvement of these processes through additional appropriate computerization.
They were chosen based on their representativeness within the industry in terms
of: 1) their focus on energy as a feature of their products; 2) the extent to which
they allow home buyers to customize their standard house plans; 3) their sales
volume and market niche; and 4) their willingness to embrace computerization as
evidenced by present computer-based practices.
U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-FC03-89FS17960
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Industrial housing -- Energy conservation
Review of exemplary sales procedures used by U.S. industrialized housing manufacturers
Article

Brown, G. Z.
Wood, D. J.
Brown, A. G. P.
2011-01-21T14:29:32Z
2011-01-21T14:29:32Z
1989
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10941
7 p.
Computer-based techniques for Environmental design tend to be analytical. They are aimed
at the Engineer who takes a previously designed building and then analyses the
environmental performance of the building so as to be able to give performance requirements
for servicing plant. Thus the building has been designed by an architect using experience
and some broad background knowledge of environmental performance, but it is usually not
until the analysis stage is reached that the building's environmental performance is
accurately assessed. A sunlight design program (application) has been written to address
this problem. This program is aimed at the designer and should allow them to assess quickly
the sunlight characteristics of their building. The intention has been to produce a tool which
is easy to understand and use: a tool which is interactive and in which data can be changed
easily. Thus the tool can be used to check the effect ofdesign changes on sunlight
performance. The tool is meant to be both an aid to design itselfand to the understanding of
the environmental performance ofbuildings. This paper describes the application and the
use of it by architectural students. lVe describe the application, assess it and evaluate its
educational value by comparing students' estimations ofsunlight perfonnance in their own
buildings with performance predicted by it. We look at how students interact with the
program to modify their design in response to this interaction and report on their evaluation
of the application during a controlled exercise.
Article
en_US
Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon
Design tools
Sunlight
Design education
Architecture -- Environmental aspects
A Sunlight Design Tool
Presentation